The Cane Payment Administrator is responsible to provide various admin and accounting related to cane payment process.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that grower debt to KSC is captured properly for recovering promptly in terms of fertiliser sales, advances to growers, etc.
• Proper capturing of all the necessary grower banking details for verification and release
• Attend to grower queries regarding payments, where required.
• Liaise with Factory team involved on cane lab in reconciling and payment run process required in cane lab system eg weekly reconciliation etc.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders with respect to grower or payment related matters.
• Liaise with stakeholders with respect to programme enhancements.
• Ensure stakeholders understand and comply with policy and procedure requirements.
• Manage and maintain customer master data and contracts in SAP.
• Print and distribute remittance advice for all payments to growers.
• Check debit balances each month and resolve to clear as many as possible.
• Analyse all outstanding claims monthly and investigate reason for delays in finalizing of claims.
• Prepare Payments, Instructions, Deductions and Sessions and submit to Cane payment specialist for review.
• Ensures cane grower are paid accurately and on time.
• Reconciles the cane payment interface summary report to the General Ledger journal.
• Makes active instructions inactive for resigned growers prior to the archiving process.
• Investigate and submit for clearance of new debit balances where possible.
• Assist the cane payment specialist to provide accurate and meaningful information to internal and external auditors.
• Provide technical support to the Cane payments systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies Required

• Strong, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
• Detailed process and analytical ability
• Strong verbal / analytical reasoning ability
• Compliance, Governance, Ethics and Value aligned to Kilombero values.
• Customer Service orientated.
• Ability to work in pressured and deadline-driven operating environment.
• Ability to self-manage workload and work independently.
• Detail-orientated with the technical aptitude and ability to perform tasks accurately and comprehensively.
• Results driven and a passion for excellence.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with external customers, management, and all levels of associates.

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s in finance/accounting or equivalent qualification
• Not less than 1 year working experience in Finance environment.
• Good computer literacy skills especially MS. Excel
• At least pass mark of C in Basic Mathematics.

Terms Of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Fixed Term Contract.